Located in a pleasant outdoor
setting overlooking Vasona Lake and Los Gatos Creek, the Vasona Vibrations Concert Series features
local artists performing a wide variety of acoustic
genres from Americana to zydeco.
Join us in the park this summer for Vasona Vibrations 2018.

The Vasona Vibrations Concert series is always free.
Food and cash donations for the
Second Harvest Food Bank
will be accepted at each concert.

June 2nd

Formed in 2008 by a couple of high school friends from the Bay Area,
Windy Hill has covered a lot of ground in 10 years, performing all over
the western states and recording three albums, with their fourth arriving
in June 2018.

While the band is steeped in the traditional style, they've cultivated
their own distinct bluegrass sound. The balance between their love for classic
bluegrass and keenness for exploring fresh musical ideas defines their style
and approach, and makes them a fan-favorite for music lovers of all types.

Three-part harmony, lonesome duets, banjo breakdowns, honky-tonk sorrow,
blues mandolin, and original material all combine to create their vision for
bluegrass music and its future.

They've won numerous awards, performed at festivals, venues, and bars across
the west coast, and released three albums:
Bluegrass Sounds from California (2017),
The Lonesome Garbage Man (2013), and
Let's Go To The Fair (2011).

June 9th

The name McCarty has long been associated with tales of the wild west.
The infamous outlaw, Billy the Kid changed his name from Henry McCarty to William H. Bonney to protect his family.

Now out of the west comes Fred McCarty. Instead of a six shooter, he carries a six-string,
singing his Country originals, Texas Swing, Cajun tunes, and Classic Cowboy songs for audiences
from coast-to-coast.

Raised in the foothills of the Allegheny Mountain's, McCarty is a musician's musician who has
composed well in excess of three hundred songs and compositions.
His background includes composition and performance experience in many musical genres,
with deep roots in bluegrass and Country. Some of Fred's earliest influences were;
Marty Robbins, Roy Orbison, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams Sr., Bob Wills, Sons of the Pioneers and Gene Autry.

June 16th

Original mountain music inspired by the traditional styles of bluegrass, blues Americana,
folk and everything in between. Santa Cruz Mountain local favorites, The Naked Bootleggers
write songs about good times and hard times, love and loss, dreams and realities, with driving rythms,
heartfelt melodies and captivating vocal harmonies that bridge the gap between traditional and contemporary music.

June 23rd

The DTs are songwriters Dave Allender (guitar and vocals) and Tom Gewecke (guitar and vocals).
Lynne Bartholomew joins them on accordion and vocals. All three take turns playing the electric bass, because you gotta have that bass.
Drummer Brian Kunz will join them as well and add his tasty beats.

They describe their music as eclectic power folk, Americana, with a tinge of jazz - an acoustic blend of vocals and instruments that will take you on a pleasant trip.
You might not know what to expect next!

June 30th

Grammy-nominated Andre Thierry was born and raised in Northern California,
but his French Creole heritage is deeply rooted in Louisiana.
He grew up with the French Creole ("la-la") dances that his grandparents held at
their church parish, St. Mark's Catholic Church. The best zydeco musicians Louisiana
had to offer would travel to California to play at these dances. It was that exposure
which led to his love for traditional French Creole music.

By age twelve, Andre had formed
his own band, "Zydeco Magic". Self-taught, Andre's repertoire grew by leaps and bounds
as he was regularly invited to play with visiting bands, such as the late John Delafose
and many local Zydeco and Cajun bands, including the late Danny Poullard
(California Cajun Orchestra).

Today, playing with a force few can match, the award-winning musician and his band effortlessly
deliver energetic performances with electrifying sounds, fun dance breaks, and accordion soul
that have captured the attention of music lovers all over the world.
The Washington Post called Andre:

"A master at pumping out fast, funky rhythms on an instrument
not usually associated with earthy syncopation. A versatile student of the music,
Thierry can't be lumped into Zydeco's old-school R&B-influenced camp or its nouveau,
rap-inspired one: He and his band, lay down both soulful, traditional slow-dances
and bottom-end-booming kinetic grooves."

July 7th

Top Shelf Big Band is a community jazz band out of Sunnyvale, California,
playing swing and jazz from the big band era. They are a volunteer group dedicated
to generating the excitement of a live big band orchestra, reminiscent of the era
of great live dance music. Their music is perfect for dancers and jazz fans alike.

July 14th

15 years ago, Na Kolohe Kane, or in English, "The Rascally Men," got started in front of
Hula Halau Na Wai Ola in Cupertino. Named for their unpredictable, unfocused, outlandish
behavior, their Aunty Gwen blessed the band with the name. Today they can be found on
Saturday nights at the Hukilau in San Jose, or pretty much wherever food is being served.
Junyah and Royce started this collaboration, later brought in Kala to play drums, and just a
few years ago, Uncle Teddy joined up to add significantly more musicianship to the band
on the keyboard.

July 21st

The high-octane Americana band, The Jones Gang, is like a VW van with 310,000
miles rolling out of the shop. Here we are, still truckin', with some new tunes & grooves.

Travis Jones, the Soul Mountain, is the lead singer with a voice for the ages.
Henry Salvia, the Motor City Misfit, plays more notes than exist on the piano.
Josh Zucker is the strong and solid base and bass of the band, and
Peter Tucker is, of course, the best Peter-Tucker-style drummer in the world,
and the only drummer officially approved by the Northern California Bluegrass society.
Sean Allen, Master of The Telecaster and on lap steel guitar is fun to listen to and watch!
He is perfect!

The band can move seamlessly from a murder ballad to a New Orleans rhumba,
first breaking your heart and then making you glad you're alive.

July 28th

Blue House combines the talents of three singer/songwriters
and longtime friends, Marlies de Veer, Amy Beasley and Brian Loud, who
enjoy mixing a rocker's attitude with a folkier acoustic sound,
highlighted by their close-knit harmonies. The group performs throughout
the bay area and beyond at festivals, nightclubs, coffee houses, house
concerts and concert halls playing their own original music blended with
a sometimes mind-boggling eclectic mix of songs written by others. They
are joined by their good friend, Mark Shawver on percussion/drums.

August 4th

The Vasona Vibrations Acoustic Open Mike returns again this year,
and is open to all acoustic musicians, singers and songwriters.

Sign up by 3:45pm. Performers
will be selected by lottery for 18
time slots. Performers pick a time
slot as their names are drawn
from a jar. No advance
reservations. Performers must be
present at the time of the
drawing. Performers are limited
to two songs or 10 minutes (including setup time), whichever comes first.

This is a live, acoustic music open mike. No spoken word, comedy, recordings, karaoke, or sequencers.
Open mike will generally follow the same performance guidelines and procedures as
for a South Bay Folks open mike which can be found at
http://www.SouthBayFolks.org/openmike.html